Literary Techniques
Who's the author?
Quotes
Themes
MLA Format
100
Expressing in vivid language of what the five senses experience; evokes sights, smells, sounds, textures, or tastes
What is description?
100
Gordon Parks
Who is the author of "Flavio's Home"?
100
"Flavio's Home."
What story is this quote from: "I've never lost my fierce grudge against poverty. It is the most savage of all human affliction, claiming victims who can't mobilize their efforts against it, who often lack strength to digest what little food they scrounge up to survive"(95).
100
Informing the audience in order to make changes involving poverty
What is the theme for "Flavios' Home"?
100
Double spacing
What is the required line spacing that each essay should have?
200
Illustrating a statement or an idea with examples
What is exemplification?
200
David Helwarg
Who is the author of "The Storm This Time"?
200
"The Ways We Lie"
What story is this quote from: "We lie. We all do We exaggerate, we minimize, we conveniently forget, we keep secrets, we justify lying to the big-guy institutions"(247).
200
To inform the audience that tragedies happen and that they should not run from them but embrace them
What is the theme in "Bombs Bursting in Air"?
200
A theme in which the author is trying to get across
What is the format of the title for an essay?
300
A technique that explains the steps or sequence in doing something
What is process-analysis?
300
Kay S. Hymowitz
Who is the author of "Tweens: Ten Going On Sixteen"?
300
"Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen"
What story is this quote from:"During the past year my youngest morphed from child to teenager. Down came the posters of adorable puppies and the drawings from art class; up went the airbrushed faces of Leonardo De Caprio and Kate Winslet".
300
To inform the audience that everyone has a voice and that expressing it makes them individuals and that it is important
What is the theme in "Sister Flowers"?
300
Last name and page number
What is the order of the heading?
400
Telling a story or several related stories in first person
What is narration?
400
Stephanie Ericsson
Who is the author of "The Ways We Lie"?
400
"What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage"
What story is this quote from:"These minor annoyances are not the stuff of separation and divorce, but in some they begin to dull my love for Scott. I wanted - needed - to nudge him a little closer to perfect, to make him into a mate who might annoy me a little less, who wouldn't keep me waiting at restaurants ,a mate who would be easier to love".
400
To inform the audience about the disappearance of childhood innocence at earlier ages. Children need to be monitored about what they are taking in by watching the media because it negatively affects their lives.
What is the theme in "'Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen"?
400
3rd person narrative.
What is the type of narrative for an essay?
500
Argumentation involves using clear thinking and logic to convince others of the soundness a particular opinion or controversial issue. Persuasion involves using emotional language to appeal to audience's concerns, beliefs, and values
What is argumentation-persuasion?
500
Beth Johnson
Who is the author of "Bombs Bursting in Air"?
500
"The problem is women generally do not think of looks in the same way men do. Most men form an opinion how how they look in the seventh grade, and they stick to it for the rest of their lives".
What is "Beauty and the Beast"?
500
To inform the audience that in order to work through issues people must be willing to look at things from a different perspective to get results
What is the theme in "What Shamu Taught Me about a Happy Marriage"?
500
At least 3 pages long.
What is the required amount of pages per essay?
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